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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 26, 2011 1:06pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
Kind of reflects the 'real' world though, n'est-ce pas ?
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Oct 26, 2011 1:32pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 26, 2011 1:58pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
People tend to say things, take stances or generally behave on the internet in ways that they would not dream of doing in face to face situations.
Personalities become somewhat exaggerated in both positive and negative ways.
I suppose people get an artificial sense of anonymity.
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Poster: | rastamon | Date: | Oct 26, 2011 3:53pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
This post was modified by rastamon on 2011-10-26 22:53:47
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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 27, 2011 10:02am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
But does that mean that you aren't actually Jamaican, living exclusively on an Ital diet, contemplating the spirit within Emperor Haile Selassie I, whilst awaiting the Black Star liner to carry I and I away to the spiritual home of Ethiopia and hoping to leave Babylon forever ?
Crikey, I am disappointed ;)
Yours huggingly,
Jacky
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Oct 26, 2011 11:20pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
The best example here was how NC hating me for appearing to "put on a smoking jacket" when posting; then he realized that's the way I talk, and we become chums.
And the biggest one of all? Control freak nature, anal retentive that has to be in charge...any circle of friends from any time period of my life will admit to you: "yeah, that over-bearing jerk always was the leader of our little group; not sure why..."
Sound familiar? No pat on the back--in fact, I am trying to break myself of this insane need for recognition and love and attn, so what do I do? Stop posting as much...
Go figure...I am as transparent as them come.
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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 27, 2011 9:54am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
I don't think I have ever encountered a control freak who was caring and over sensitive.
I can see how the caring / over sensitive bit would fit in with your self-confessed giving-a-shit quality. But where does the whining fit in ?
Do you whine whilst trying to impose your will over a group ?
Control freakery and caring / over sensitive together would definitely qualify you instantly as PM in this country.
Consider Tony Blair and David Cameron. Both utter control freaks with a thin veneer of fake caring and sensitivity. If you can do both of those for real, well you'd be in.
Gordon Brown; just a charmless control freak. See where that got him.
WT for PM, I say ;0)
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Oct 27, 2011 2:38pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
Folks at times have observed something along the lines of "there's Tell again...whining about we all have to be nice to each other--grow up, Tell!" (when I took the PM role here seriously--I would've been chiming in with advice to EVERYONE participating in ANY bash and forth exchange of insults as what happened in this thread; now I largely ignore it).
That might not be whining so much as excessive "coercion" to fall in line (my line of course)?
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Poster: | rdenirojb87 | Date: | Oct 27, 2011 9:58am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 27, 2011 10:03am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: That's just the way it is - some things never change (Non Dead) |
No way, Rab maybe.